On the latest episode of Automators, Rosemary and I dive into how we do a daily brief with Shortcuts on our devices. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs…
Listen & read notes →Jazz Friday: Ellis Marsalis
Among the many tragedies we are experiencing with Covid-19, we recently lost Ellis Marsalis. Ellis was a remarkable jazz pianist that was known for his clever riffs and his passion for teaching. Among his many students that went on to have their own music…
Continue reading →Pixelmator Updates
The team at Pixelmator certainly isn’t sitting around watching Netflix. They have had a few recent updates of note. Pixelmator Pro 1.6 Magenta is now out with a major update. The all-new, color picker makes it easier than ever to choose and manage colors. They…
Continue reading →Take Charge of Your Email with SaneBox (Sponsor)
This week’s sponsor, SaneBox is the solution to so many of my email problems. SaneBox is the email service that adds a pile of productivity features to your email, regardless of what email client you use. For a lot of folks, email is a constant pain…
Continue reading →The Pitiful State of Laptop cameras
Joanna Stern for the Wall Street Journal recently did a piece on the many sins with laptop webcams. We talked about this on a recent episode of the Mac Power Users. I understand that laptop screens are very thin, but with the recent improvements…
Continue reading →Watchsmith: My New Favorite Apple Watch Complication
David “Undercore” Smith has a new app, appropriately called “Watchsmith“. I think about this app as the watch complication to end all watch complications. There are two components to this app. First is the actual complication itself. You can customize it to show a…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 530: Working from Home
Many people have started working from home for the first time. This week on Mac Power Users, Stephen and I tap into our combined decade of experience to share some of what has worked well for us working from home. This episode of Mac Power…
Listen & read notes →The G4 Cube: Favorite Mac?
Really? The SE/30 went down in the first round so the cube could win?
Continue reading →Home Screens — Jake Pugh
Meet Jake Pugh. So, Jake, show us your home screens. What are some of your favorite apps? Day-to-day, my most used apps are definitely Overcast (for what might be termed a small podcast addiction) for entertainment, Foreflight as the one-stop shop for all of…
Continue reading →Fantastical Gets iPad Cursor Support
Fantastical has a new release with cursor support for iPadOS 13.4. One of my favorite things about the new Fantasticcal is that it is comparable to the Mac app. I’m happy to see Flexibits keeping the updates coming. There are several more features with…
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